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Member Since: 11/5/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/miscelaneaquartet
Band Members:
Alejandro (Spain)
We are born from the need to mix music, culture, and the experience of four musicians, in a new way of making art. A fresh vision regarding the repertoire that focuses on contemporary music, although always in touch with “classical or traditional†repertoire. We are working with new composers as a result of living in the 21st century. We are a new concept in which a quartet of guitars, seen as a miniature orchestra, wanting to go beyond the limits of an instrument that just imitates others. We combine feelings, ideas, and the energy of four very different persons.
Formed in April 2006, its members include Kostas Tosidis, Tanausú Luis DÃaz, Giorgos Pervolarakis and Alejandro Diaz Bandrés, all four completing their Masters at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria after previous studies in their native countries (Spain and Greece).
We work in an innovative project in which the guitar quartet presents a fresh program for the public while remaining serious in content. We would like to remain faithful to contemporary repertoire, therefore we continue to study known works as well keep motivating composers to write for our group. We think of the quartet as a formation of musicians with great potential as well as collaborators with other instruments and other forms of art, such as dance or applied art. We would like to keep an open attitude to other possibilities of development that are still waiting to be discovered and cultivated.
At the moment, our program is formed by pieces already composed and known by Dusan Bogdánovic, Leonardo Ballada, Daniel Bernard Rouman (Dbr) and Ian Krause… At the same time, we are working with other composers like AgustÃn Castilla-Ãvila and Joannous Ellia who have written music dedicated to us such as “Cage music 4†and “Staubzuckerâ€.
Presently, we are cooperating with the choreographers Jule Flierl and SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) in a piece that corporate our own training and contemporary dance in an innovative way. The music was composed for us by AgustÃn Castilla-Ãvila and the piece was performed in January at the “Republic†Hall in Salzburg
We plan to record the pieces “Staubzucker†and "Apophis" by Elia Joannou for the Institute of Polyesthetic Art in Salzburg at the television studio ORF (Austrian Television)
The quartet really began to work in April of 2007, taking classes from Mathias Seidel, Eliot Fisk, Marco Tamayo, Isabel Siewers, Simone Fontanelli and Martin Mumelter, all active professors at the Mozarteum University. (Salzburg, Austria)